posix CPU timers into task work context. The tick interrupt is reduced to a
quick check which queues the work which is doing the heavy lifting before
returning to user space or going back to guest mode. Moving this out is
deferring the signal delivery slightly but posix CPU timers are inaccurate
by nature as they depend on the tick so there is no real damage. The
relevant test cases all passed.
This lifts the last offender for RT out of the hard interrupt context tick
handler, but it also has the general benefit that the actual heavy work is
accounted to the task/process and not to the tick interrupt itself.
Further optimizations are possible to break long sighand lock hold and
interrupt disabled (on !RT kernels) times when a massive amount of posix
CPU timers (which are unpriviledged) is armed for a task/process.
This is currently only enabled for x86 because the architecture has to
ensure that task work is handled in KVM before entering a guest, which was
just established for x86 with the new common entry/exit code which got
merged post 5.8 and is not the case for other KVM architectures.
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of posix CPU timer changes which allows to defer the heavy work
of posix CPU timers into task work context. The tick interrupt is
reduced to a quick check which queues the work which is doing the
heavy lifting before returning to user space or going back to guest
mode. Moving this out is deferring the signal delivery slightly but
posix CPU timers are inaccurate by nature as they depend on the tick
so there is no real damage. The relevant test cases all passed.
This lifts the last offender for RT out of the hard interrupt context
tick handler, but it also has the general benefit that the actual
heavy work is accounted to the task/process and not to the tick
interrupt itself.
Further optimizations are possible to break long sighand lock hold and
interrupt disabled (on !RT kernels) times when a massive amount of
posix CPU timers (which are unpriviledged) is armed for a
task/process.
This is currently only enabled for x86 because the architecture has to
ensure that task work is handled in KVM before entering a guest, which
was just established for x86 with the new common entry/exit code which
got merged post 5.8 and is not the case for other KVM architectures"
* tag 'timers-core-2020-08-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Select POSIX_CPU_TIMERS_TASK_WORK
posix-cpu-timers: Provide mechanisms to defer timer handling to task_work
posix-cpu-timers: Split run_posix_cpu_timers()
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